Giclee Art Reproduction Image Manipulation

Video Transcript

"Hi. I'm JK Dooley. I'm a professional artist and today we're going to talk a little bit more about creating a giclee and the next step is to actually open up the image in an editing program. You can get Photoshop, you can invest in that. There's actually programs that you can download for free online that can help you do this. So there's a number of different ways, or if you're not going to do it yourself you'll have some idea of what your professional is supposed to be doing when he has your product. So this is actually printed on some inexpensive paper and it's just to kind of give you an idea. This is the finished product. What happens when you open it in Photoshop, as an example which is what I use, the first thing I do is I just take a quick look at it to make sure the color is balanced, to see if it needs contrast improved, basically just to tidy up the work if there's specs, if there's spots, you can crop your image. It's not that you're manipulating it into an entirely new image, you're basically just tidying it up. If there's, a lot of times there'll be dust spots and the color might be off just a little bit. So the first step is to just do some real basic tidying up of your image, and I use Photoshop but there's a lot of stuff out there available so that'll kind of give you an idea."